A Catholic nun has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping militias kill hundreds of people hiding in a hospital during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, an official said Friday.Theophister Mukakibibi was sentenced by a traditional gacaca court for helping Hutu militiamen to kill ethnic Tutsis seeking refuge from the slaughter in Butare hospital, where she worked."She was responsible for selecting Tutsis and would throw them out of the hospital and the militia would then kill them," said Jean Baptiste Ndahumba, president of the local gacaca court in Butare town. "This nun was organizing people to be killed." She was jailed Thursday.She would also hold regular meetings with Hutu extremist groups and denied food to Tutsis hiding in the hospital, he said by telephone. About 20 people testified against her, he added.... http://www.foxnews.com

Attorneys for a man accused of killing a University of Vermont student want the charges dismissed, saying their client can't get a fair trial because of what an FBI agent wrote in a weekly newspaper. The FBI agent, writing as "An Anonymous Cop," described his personal reaction to the search for the man accused of abducting 21-year-old Michelle Gardner-Quinn as she walked toward campus on Oct. 7 and killing her. He referred to the suspect as "evil," a "sexual predator" and a "two-legged hyena." FBI spokesman Paul Holstein said the author of the article, which appeared Wednesday in the weekly Seven Days newspaper, was an FBI agent. "We're not happy with it, and we'll take steps to ensure it doesn't happen again," Holstein said. "We take it very seriously when we have an unauthorized media contact, and it also is an issue because we have a policy that we do not discuss ongoing investigations or prosecutions." ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2644181

This is probably not what President Bush had in mind when he stressed bipartisanship after the Democratic Party's midterm elections sweep.A key Senate Republican has joined Democrats in opposing one of Bush's initiatives for the lame-duck Congress: John Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.With leaders from both parties promising a new bipartisan Washington, Bush began efforts to get two of his most controversial decisions approved before the Democrats take over. Along with Bolton's nomination, Bush said he would like to move forward on legislation to retroactively authorize the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program. Bush said he would like to see action on both issues before year's end. The Democratic-controlled Congress begins its term in January....http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/10/bolton.congress/index.html?eref=rss_world

Mexico City's assembly has backed a law recognising same-sex civil unions, the first such move in the country's history. The ruling stops short of enabling gay couples to get married and will only apply to the estimated nine million inhabitants of Mexico City. Mexico City Mayor Alejandro Encinas is widely expected to ratify the law. It has met fierce opposition from President-elect Felipe Calderon's National Action Party. The law has also been attacked by the Catholic Church and conservative activists. 'Decadence' While Mexico City legislators voted for the law, supporters and opponents of the bill demonstrated noisily outside the assembly building. Protester Humberto Muniz described the law as "anti-natural". ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6134730.stm

Russia has reached agreement with the United States on its entry into the World Trade Organization, but final details need to be ironed out before a formal deal is signed next week, Russia and the U.S. Trade Representative's office said Friday."Government delegations from both countries agreed on all principal conditions of this agreement," the Trade and Economic Development Ministry said.The ministry said both sides would continue talks in order to ensure that the bilateral agreement was signed at a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Vietnam next week by the countries' top trade negotiators."We have an agreement in principle and are finalizing the details," U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said in a separate announcement. "This agreement will mark an important step in Russia attaining membership in the WTO."...http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2006-11-10-russia-wto_x.htm?csp=34

MI5 knows of 30 terror plots threatening the UK and is keeping 1,600 individuals under surveillance, the security service's head has said. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller warned the threat was "serious" and "growing". She said future attacks could be chemical or nuclear and that many of the plots were linked to al-Qaeda. Prime Minister Tony Blair said the terrorist threat was "very real" and spoke of "poisonous propaganda" warping the minds of young people. Hard choices MI5 has increased in size by nearly 50% since 9/11 and now stands at roughly 2,800 staff. But according to Dame Eliza the current terror threat will "last a generation" and her concern is that even with MI5's rapid growth, the security service will not be able to investigate nearly enough of activities it deems to be suspicious. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6134516.stm